Rail anchor



April 24, 1928.

E. WOODINGS RAIL ANCHQR 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Feb. 18'. 1926 April 24, 1928.

E. WOODINGS RAIL ANCHOR 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Feb. 18. 1926 INVENTOR wlmesszs D WE WW hill lid

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EMANUEL WQODINGS, OI OAKMON '1, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB TO WOODINGB II'OBGI 4b TOOL COMPANY, OF VANIA.

V'ERONA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION 01' m- B-AIL ANCHOR.

Application filed February 18, 1926. Serial 80.

This invention relates to rail anchors.

The objects of the invention are to rovide a rail anchor that will engage the ass of a rail in such manner as to present great resistance to slipping of the rail through the anchor. More particularly, the ob'ect is to provide an anchor so formed an so held on the rail that there ma be an edge or line engagement of the anch underside of-the rail with the result that to cause the rail to creep through the anchor will exert a turning moment on the anchor and so cause the edge of the anchor to bite into and 'ositively engage the rail, preventing or at l east strongly resisting movement therebetween.

llteferr to the drawings, Fig. 1 illustrates a cross tie and a rail sup orted thereon, with one of my anchors applied in operative position to the rail; Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical cross section on the line H-H ofFig. 1; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line III-HI ofFig. 2, the rail heing removed but indicated diagrammatically; Fig. dis a plan view of the rail anchor, the rail being indicated diagrammath caliy; Fig. 5 is a section on the line V-V oi 2; Fig. 6 is'a section on the line Vlfi ifll of Fig. 2, projections of side eleva tions of the end of the anchor ateach side of the section, being indicated; Fig. 7 is similar to Fig. Q showing a modification in the rail anchor; Fi 8 IS a section on the line VllH-Vl'lll ot Fig. 7 with [projected side elevations nsin Fig. 6; and Fig. 9 is an end view showing another modification, applied to a rail and tie as in Fig. I.

lied anchors are applied to the bases of reiis, with a, gripping engagement. therewith, for the purpose of forming an ahntwent against the side of a tie to prevent creeping of the rail under the force of troins moving thereover. The general purposes and functioning of such devices are weil known in the art, and need not he set forth here.

time of the tronhles with reil anchors ot the prior art is that they have only a frictionnl engagement with the underside of roih, and cons uentl when heavy trains are moved over t e rails slide through the anchors in spite of the frictional enor with the gagement therewith. The anchor now to be described is intended to overcome this difficulty at least to a large degree, by providing an abutment which will not only have a frictional engagement with the underside of the rail, but which will tend under working conditions to actually bite into and form a positive engagement therewith.

In Fig. 1 there is illustrated a standard rail R seated on a wooden cross tie T, with one of my anchors A applied thereto. This anchor is intended to prevent creeprail toward It will be to prevent creeping in understood that the other direction a slmllar anchor may be ap lied with its ends reversed, on the other 51 e of the same or another cross tie. he anchor itself is formed of good quality bar steel'of about 50% carbon. It is shaped to form a resilient bend 1 at its middle portion. At the left of the bend. as illustrated in Fig. 2, the bar has a straight seating ortion 2, extending outward to the edge 0 the rail, an n wardiy extending portion 3, and an inwar l bent end 4. On the other side of the middle bend 1 the bar forms a second seating; portion 5, a second 30 resilient hend 6, and then it is bent upward and inward to form a terminal 7.- The upper sides of the bar above the portions referred to as 2 and '5 are formed into straight plane :i'acw 8 and 9, respectively. 35 These faces as iiinstmted in Figs. 1 to 8 are inclined at an angle of from five to eight degrees with rmpect to what would he normai to the side or edge plane of the her. This inclination of the hearing faces is produced by. the torinin dies in a preliminory operation on the her.

in Fig. an anchor it" of uniform thickness in the portions corresponding to 2 and 5 of Fig. 2 is shown. That is to say the ts upper faces for contact with the under side of the rail are surfaces of a rectangular bar, conseoqnentiy perpendicular to the planes of the sides of the her.

(in the inner face oi the terminal portion we 7 of the anchor A there is a notch N, formed he a side 11 and an upper face 12 substantially perpendicnlar to the face '11, as illustrated particularly in Fig. 6. This the right, as indicated as notch runs obliquely across the inner face of the bar, compared to a perpendicular tween the planes of the side faces of the The underface of the end 4 of the anchor is adapted to seat fiat upon the upper surface of the rail base, when the upper face 12 of the notch engages the opposite upper face of the rail base, as illustrated in Fig. 2. That is to say the face 12 of the notch N and the underfacc of the terminal portion 4 are both adapted to seat flat on the upper side of the rail base when the anchor is ap lied in normal canted position.

he anchor is applied to a rail by first engaging its left end on a rail base,-and then by a suitable tool bending outward the other end 7 until it will sli over the lower corner of the base of the rai l at the right, and then forcin r it upward until the upper face 12 of notch i' seats u on the upper face at the corner of the rai as shown in Fig. 2. The resiliency of the clamp and the enga ement of the notch will thenhold the anc or in place, the clamp bein held at a slight incline to the )lane of tie rail base, as shown in Fig. 1. onsequently, the faces 8 and J on the up er side of the body portion of the anchor will contact with the under-face of the rail at their forward edges only, i. e. the left side when sitioned as indicated in Figs. 1, 5, etc. he face of the anchor opsite this contacting edge is positioned so that it abuts the side of a tie, as shown in Fig?! hen a train passes cated by the arrow in Figs. 1, 5, and 9, the tendency of the rail to creep forward with the train and the abutment of the anchor against the tie apply a turning or canting movement to the anchor, and the contacting corners or edges of the faces 8 and 9 tend to bite into the underside of the rail base, and so to form a positive engagement therewith. as compared to a mere frictional contact. The tilted position at which theraii anchor is held as shown in Fig. 5 further aids this tendency, as will be apparent.

In Figs. 7 and 8 there is illustrated a modification, in'that instead of the notch N for locking the anchor in position upon the rail, I provide a projection 20. The underface 0 this projection is inclined with respect to a rpendicular between the side p anes exact y as is the upper notch N, and with the same results of tilting the anchor slightly so as to cause the forward edge only of the anchor to engage the underside of the rail. In all other respects the construction and o eration of the anchor A is the same as that illustrated in the other figures, and described above.

In order to increase the tendency of the forward edges to bite into the underside of the rail, and to give greater leverage for in the direction indiface 12 of the 1 rail, one end the turning moment exerted b abutmentwith the tie, the lower portion 0 the anchor may be bent sli htly backward, as illustrated in i 9. In t at ease particularly the faces 8 RIM 9 may be made perpendicular to the side planes of the upper portion of the anchor. That is to say the special shaping of the faces that are to engage the underside of the rail may be omitted. The same is true of the forms shown in Figs. 2 and 7, but those forms are more effective with the inclined portions provided as described.

it will be understood that a tie plate P is ordinarily used between the rails and the ties, also that most ties are rounded off at the corners, as shown in Figs. 1 and 9. Consequently, evenwithout the bending back of the lower part of the anchor as shown in Fig. 9, the abutment of the anchor against the tie is materially below the level of the underface of the rail, so that a substantial turning moment fulcruming on the biting ed es of the faces rai tends to move forward through the anchor.

I claim:

1. A one-piece rail anchor adapted to extend under a rail and to be retained on the base thereof, having a plurality of faces adapted to engage t e underside of the rail at points s )aced inward from the edges of the rail an at the forward edges only of the faces, and means to hold the anchor with the edges in engagement with the underside of the rail.

2. A rail anchor adapted to extend under a rail and to be retained on the base thereof having a plurality of inclined intermediate faces formed by bends in the anchor and adapted to'engage the underside of the rail at the forward edges of the faces, and integral means to hold the anchor with the said edges in engagement with the underside of the rail.

3. A rail anchor adapted to be held in engagement with the base of a rail by its own resilienc the anchor having a pluralit of faces ormed by bends in the anchor a apted to engage the underside of the rail, and integral means to hold the anchor in position with the said inclined portions engaging the underside of the rail at their forward edges only.

at. A rail anchor adapted to be held in engagement with the underside of a rail by its own resiliency, the anchor having inclined faces adapted to engage the underside of the rail, and means to hold the anchor in position with the said inclined faces engaging the underside of the rail at their forwar edges only.

5. A rail anchor adapted to engage at each end the upper corners of the base of a. of the anchor having a rail base engaging abutment adapted to en- 8 and 9 is exerted when the p gage the upper corner of the rail and in engagement with the underside of the shaped to hold the anchor at an oblique rail, and an extension of the anchor adapted 1 angle to the plane of the base of the rail, to abut a tie positioned beneath the rail, whereby to press the forward edge only of the lower edge of said extension being bent 5 the anchor against the lower face of the rail. toward the tie whereby to fulcrum the i 6.7 A rail anchor adapted to resiliently enanchor on the forward ed e thereof. gage the base of a rail, means to hold the In testimony whereof, sign my name. anchor with the forward edge only thereof EMANUEL W'OODIN GS. 

